People

Under this section, you'll find all research personnel in the Cognitive Neuroscience group at SISSA, with a brief description of who they are and what they do. Where available, links are also provided to the personal/lab websites.

Faculty Members are full and associate professors in the group, i.e., tenured group leaders who can directly supervise students, recruit staff in their labs, and manage funds. They provide the bulk of the teaching offer in the PhD.

Senior Postdocs are non-tenured, but independent researchers who are recruited in the group to widen our research portfolio with their own investigations. They’re encouraged to liaise with (some of) the PI’s labs; but are expected to maintain independence. They typically don't supervise students independently, and don’t manage research funds directly (unless they have their own external funds, of course). They typically contribute to the teaching offer in the PhD.

Postdocs are non-tenured, research positions to work in one of the PI’s labs. They can be funded internally or through external grants. They don't supervise students independently, and don’t manage research funds directly. If they’re happy to do so, they can contribute to the teaching offer in the PhD.

Students include PhD in our own program; Master in one of the programs that we run in collaboration with partners institutions; and subsidised graduate and postgraduate fellows who run short-term visits to the group, typically in the view of joining our PhD program.


I joined SISSA in 2022 as a PhD student under the supervision of Eugenio Piasini. My research lies at the intersection between deep learning and cognitive neuroscience. In particular, I use deep neural networks for studying several properties of human and computer vision.

INTRODUCTION: Anna joined SISSA in 2017, where she obtained her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2022. Currently, she works as a post-doctoral research fellow in Domenica Bueti's Time Perception Lab.

I joined SISSA in 2022 as a graduate student under Cognitive Neuroscience department. I am currently trying to understand how different cognitive interventions can alter our first person human experience. I am specifically interested to theoretically model higher cognitive phenomena like mind-wandering/mindfulness, perception of self, and memory retrieval dynamics.

Francesca is a Ph.D. student in the Time Perception Lab since 2020, under the supervision of Domenica Bueti. Her research interest focuses on the brain mechanisms for temporal encoding, and she is specialising in EEG and TMS techniques. Francesca has a background in Philosophy, Cognitive Science and Neuropsychology.

I joined SISSA in 2022 as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow where I am investigating the interaction between time perception and motor learning through EEG and psychophysical methods. 

I am a mathematical neuroscientist interested in spatio-temporal neural coding and human categorization.

Research in Domenica’s lab concerns the study of magnitudes i.e., how the human brain processes space, time and numbers using neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG) and brain stimulation techniques (TMS). More information on Domenica's lab website.

Contact: domenica.bueti@sissa.it

Riccardo joined SISSA in 2018 and is working with Davide Zoccolan.

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